Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> writes:

> T568-lib-thread assums that there will always be a thread with ID
> thread:0000000000000009, but this turns out not to be the case.
>
> This was reported to us in Nixpkgs[1], where it caused builds of our
> notmuch package to intermittently fail, and I was able to
> (intermittently) reproduce.  We are going to work around this problem
> for now by disabling T568.  I can provide a Xapian DB generated by this
> test with no thread with that ID if that's helpful.  I believe this also
> explains this report previously sent to the Notmuch mailing list[2].
>
> Note on reproducing: I found that it often would succeed repeatedly
> many, many times before failing, and then failing consistently for a
> while.  My co-conspirator Puck (CCed) thinks this might be due to how
> directory order works in ZFS (which just happens to be the filesystem we
> are using).

Sorry for the delay in replying. This should be fixed in commit a37d5f5,
which was part of Notmuch 0.31.4.

d
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